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WASHINGTON The National Democratic Committee's decision to hold its 2016 national convention in Philadelphia underscores the rebound of the fifth-largest U.S. city, after it reversed a decades-long population decline and won its highest bond grade in 30 years. Philadelphia, a city of 1.55 million, grew for the seventh straight year in 2013, driven by students, young professionals, immigrants and empty-nesters, according to a January report from Mayor Michael Nutter. From the 1950s until 2007, the city steadily lost population. Democrats chose Philadelphia, the first U.S. capital, as the site of the presidential nominating gathering because of its "deep rooted place in American...

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